Maureen Wild hopes to change the way we eat.
Aeroponics is the process of cultivating plants in an air or mist environment, eliminating the need for soil or an aggregate medium. It falls under the category of hydroponics, as water is employed in aeroponics to deliver nutrients to the plants.
Maureen Wild opened the Tower Garden franchise in Prescott about two years ago. She was working on her book, Changing the Way We Eat, when her editor, Elizabeth Garrett, told her about Tower Garden and she jumped at the chance at another way to get people to see the importance of healthy eating.
“My mission – and their mission – is to inspire people to see the root causes of health problems and put them on a healing journey through whole food nutrition,” she said.
Wild notes that when people go to the grocery store, they are getting food that is shipped from somewhere else, sometimes other countries or states, and lose nutrients during the shipping process. With Tower Garden, customers can grow produce inside or outside of their home.
Wild said the best part of Tower Garden is that people can have fresh produce right in their house. “It’s exciting to me that people can have healthy fruits and vegetables right there,” she said, noting that the most challenging part of Tower Garden is convincing people that they need to invest in their health.
“We’re ingrained that we need to go to the doctor and get pills when a lot of our health comes down to the food we consume. We’re not thinking that health is out there and that we can control it.”
The basic Tower Garden system is five-and-a-half to six feet tall. It comes in sections, so customers can make it taller or smaller depending on their needs. The company is part of the Juice Plus franchise, which provides plant-based powders in a capsule.
Tower Garden also has a curriculum for teachers and administrators to help them understand the system. Tower Garden is in the Williams School District. “I want to educate people about their health,” said Wild.
Wild volunteers at her church and is active in Summit Sisters Adventures hiking and social group where she also talks about Tower Garden.
She and her husband, Mike, moved to Prescott almost six years ago from Washington state. “We are close to family in Phoenix without having the heat,” she said. “I love that it’s called everybody’s hometown, because it has a little bit of all the places we’ve lived.” QCBN
By Stan Bindell, QCBN
To order her book or Tower Garden, or for more information, Wild can be reached at WILDinJesus@outlook.com or 360-929-4959.
Photo by Stan Bindell: Maureen Wild opened the Tower Garden franchise in Prescott two years ago. “It’s exciting to me that people can have healthy fruits and vegetables right there,” she said.
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